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Mission 66 And Cape Cod National Seashore's Salt Pond Visitor Center

The Mission 66 program in the National Park Service was an ambitious 10-year program beginning in 1956 to improve national park facilities for the onslaught of Baby Boomers anxious to hit the road for their summer vacations. A hallmark of that program was unique architecture that helped define Mission 66. In the following video from Lower Cape TV, Cape Cod National Seashore historian Bill Burke explains the history behind the design of the seashore's Salt Pond Visitor Center.

Cape Cod Chamber Officials And Tourism Businesses Unsure How Badly Coronavirus Will Impact Them

The coronavirus pandemic has upended the tourism industry. While states are beginning to relax restrictions on public gatherings, how, and when, and how the traveling public will react are questions that officials and businesses in tourist hotspots like Provincetown, Massachusetts, can't yet fully answer or know how to prepare for.

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While staff at Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve in Colorado prepared to close the park Friday night, Guadalupe Mountains National Park closed earlier in the day, and staff at Cape Cod National Seashore in Massachusetts was dealing with garbage and vandalism.

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